#9578 closed defect (wontfix)
BUG: firefox-x11 does not support building XPCOM applications
| Reported by: | rhwood@… | Owned by: | rhwood@… |
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| Priority: | Low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | rhwood@… | |
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Description
Although firefox-x11 installs XPCOM headers, pkg-config files, and libraries, it does so in a broken manner, looking for them in @executable-path, whatever that is.
This is known to have negative impacts on the liferea and epiphany ports and possibly on other ports as well.
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by rhwood@…
| blocked: | → 5985, 7371 |
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comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by pipping@…
| Milestone: | → Port Bugs |
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comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Cc: | rhwood@… added |
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| Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to rhwood@… |
| Priority: | Expected → Normal |
comment:4 Changed 17 years ago by rhwood@…
| Priority: | Normal → Low |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
| Version: | 1.2 |
This is partially solved, see the yelp port for implementation details. I am calling this a low priority, since there are workarounds.
comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by rhwood@…
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
It seems to me that the GNOME ports that depend on Gecko (supplied by firefox-x11) for html rendering will most likely be migrated to Webkit, which enjoys active support in the X11 rendering space from Apple, unlike Firefox, which is only supported on Mac OS X in Aqua by Mozilla, that I am not concerned by this.
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